Ewa Matyja
Born 1985, Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018/19 Solo Exhibition, Alchemik Hair Studio, Poznan, Poland
2017/18 Solo Exhibition, AirHair Studio, Poznan, Poland
2016 Solo Exhibition, Drukarnia Sklad Chleba i Wina, Poznan, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Control + Shift" Untitled Space, Shanghai, China
2019 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2019 Minute16, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019 The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2018 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2018 Stacja Design, Wroclaw, Poland
2018 Young Art Auction, Sopot’s Auction House, Warsaw, Poland
2018 New Avant-garde, post competition exhibition, Katowice, Poland
2018 Young Art Auction, Pragaleria, Warsaw, Poland
2017 COMEL, post competition exhibition, Latina, Italy
SELECTED ART FAIRS & FESTIVALS
2018/19 The Other Art Fair New York City, London, New York City
2018 AFF Art Fresh Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Christmas Art Fair, Officyna Art & Design, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Warsaw International Art Fair, Warsaw, Poland (represented by White Space Gallery)
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2019 Pouch Cove Foundation, Canada
2019 Self-directed Artist Residency, Bangkok, Thailand
2019 Untitled Space, Shanghai, China
AWARDS
2018 II Contemporary Art Competition, New Avant-garde, Katowice, Poland
2018 Finalist of Fusion Art 2nd Annual Colors Competition, Online Gallery
2018 Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Abstract Art Exhibition,
Special Merit Category Award
2018 Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Abstract Art Exhibition,
8th place (out of 952 entries)
2017 COMEL Contemporary Art Prize, selected as one of the top 14 finalist, Latina, Italy
EDUCATION
2015 Graphic Design, FETAC Level 5, Dublin Institute of Design, Ireland
2013 BA (Hons) Business Studies 2:1, Dublin Business School, Ireland
Biography
Ewa Matyja was born in 1985 in Poland, she spent most of her life travelling and living for 10 years in Ireland where she received her degree in Marketing & Event Management at Dublin Business School and completed Graphic Design Course at FETAC Level 5. In 2016 she dropped corporate lifestyle to fully focus on becoming full time artist, persue art career and moved back to Poland.
She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Drukarnia Sklad Chleba i Wina, AirHair Studio or Alchemik Studio in Poznan, Poland.
Matyja also has already been included in various important group exhibitions including Shanghai, London, Berlin, COMEL in Italy, New Avant-garde, Auction Houses or Stacja Design in various cities in Poland.
She has been actively involved in art fairs and festivals in NYC and London The Other Art Fair, in Poland such as Art Fresh Festival or Officyna Art & Design Fair.
After completing Artist Residencies Programms in 2019 in Canada, Thailand and China Ewa Matyja moved to Bali, Indonesia in 2019, where she lives and works now.
Artist Statement
As a self-taught artist with only three years experience I paint to challange myself. The amount of creativity that was storaged inside me, creates unexpected pieces that are abstract visualisation of all my previous expeirences. As an artist I create work that reflects emotions and chaos in life that we are living. I capture movement and life.
I use traditional materials, acrylic paint, charcoal, pastels, ink. I experiment with them to find what suprising final effect can be achieved.
My proces involves working on several pieces at the time to create dialogue between them, moving from one to another allows me develop the ideas and pushing the boundries. This is no going back or correcting proces.
My goal is to inspire those, who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual.